How to use "asylum" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

Example sentences for "asylum" in popular movie and book plots

Pandi reveals that he was sent to Sri Lanka and tortured by prison officials after he had tried to seek asylum in London as a Sri Lankan refugee, and humiliated by the recent events, he returns to his village. - Aandavan Kattalai (2016 film)

New Delhi is about a Delhi based journalist who is imprisoned in a mental asylum after exposing the wicked side of two corrupted politicians, and his subsequent attempts at revenge with the help of this lady love. - New Delhi (1988 Kannada film)

A disturbed Dinesh wakes up to find himself in the mental asylum where he is being treated. - Saithan

When the player is caught at the wrong place at the wrong time during a coup attempt in Ul'dah, the hero flees to Ishgard for asylum from the charge of regicide with Alphinaud and Tataru, the only remnants of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn to escape the fiasco. - Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

On his second day of imprisonment, Bruce struggles with the side-effects of the drug while he is being attacked by some of the inmates in the asylum wanting revenge for Thomas Wayne's actions. - Batman: The Telltale Series

She reminisces growing up in a mental asylum alongside her twin brother Boone (Nick Jonas) and Gigi (Nasim Pedrad) who spent three years grieving over the suicide of her sister Amy (Chelsea Ricketts), who had a drug overdose. - The Final Girl(s)

In Japanese-occupied Korea, a conman operating under the sobriquet of "Count Fujiwara" hires a pickpocket named Sook-Hee from a family of con artists to become the maid of the mysterious Japanese heiress Lady Hideko, whom Fujiwara plans to marry and to commit to an asylum in order to steal her inheritance. - The Handmaiden

Grace and Pete (Diego Boneta) discover from the painter in the asylum that Gigi (Nasim Pedrad) is The Hag of Shady Lane and that the Hag took care of two babies, and Grace goes to confront her, only to be shut down. - Mommie Dearest (Scream Queens)

Eventually, Cathy is released from the asylum and reclaims her position as dean of the university. - Beware of Young Girls

Chang had volunteered to go undercover in the asylum where Huang was being kept, in order to extract a confession, but Chang's superior officer died unexpectedly, which meant no one knew Chang was undercover in the asylum. - The Tenants Downstairs

Lisa realizes that the only way to bring her reputation back is to break into the asylum with Bart and find one of her inventions. - Paths of Glory (The Simpsons)

Upset that that was all they could find, they go to the local sheriff, who informs them that Rose survived the fire, and that she is locked up in an asylum after murdering her family. - Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story

He then says that the situation reminds him of a joke about two patients in an insane asylum who try to escape by leaping over to the adjoining building. - Batman: The Killing Joke (film)

His innocent investigations to strange goings-on at a funeral parlour for a friend, leads him to Blackwattle Creek, a former asylum for the criminally insane, to Cold War paranoia and corrupt policemen. - Blackwattle Creek

Richard is surprised to find that his own father was at the bottom of the scheme, and that Everett was being held at the asylum because he had discovered a method of manufacturing rubber but refused to sell it. - The Brass Check (film)

Her father is the director of an asylum next to their house, separated only by a wall. - Call Me Elisabeth

Shelby leaves the asylum disgruntled, thinking it was a bad idea to even just go there and talk to what is an apparent madman. - Bell's Theorem (comics)

Later, Maps suddenly realizes that the mysterious symbol is two inverted, interconnected "A"s, that the five assume stands for Arkham Asylum, explaining that the tunnels connected to the asylum before its collapse. - Gotham Academy

Charles finds a loophole, that Jack can be sent back to the insane asylum so soon as he has married and begotten a sane heir to succeed him. - The Ruling Class (play)

Deering's daughter, Grace, failing to induce her sweetheart, Tom Reynolds, to aid in rescuing Deering, breaks into the asylum and takes her father out singlehandedly. - The Stolen Invention

Maria Antonia is alone and to the mercy of the dangers of the city, until she meets the young Andres (Luis Aguilar) and his friend Pizarrín (Fernando Soto "Mantequilla"), who give her asylum in their neighborhood. - La reina del trópico

He is eventually granted asylum for three years, with Mills joining him at a later date. - Snowden (film)

Realizing that Belle loves the Beast, Gaston furiously has her thrown into asylum with her father, and convinces the villagers to follow him to the castle to slay the Beast. - Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)

She also discovers the existence of a twin sister of the deceased, Daniela, who went crazy after her sister's suicide and was admitted into a mental asylum in London, but was later taken to the mansion and hidden in one of the rooms. - Julia (Venezuelan telenovela)

Arun watches the torture inflicted on Mridula and the story then continues through tense scenes where eventually Arun kills Jayant and unwittingly Mridula too, following which he's sent to a mental asylum having been declared insane. - Samaj Ko Badal Dalo (1947 film)

A group of friends, Dennis, Darnell, Jane, twins Judy and Kiki, Mike, and Tina have a picnic near the asylum where Hansen was institutionalized. - Doom Asylum

Juni, Krishnendu and Samaresh visits a mental asylum where Arunima is being treated since the brutal attack on her. - Care Kori Na

At the asylum she meets a young doctor whom she learns to love and the two manage to bring the truth to light. - Peppy Polly

He fails to meet the therapists' expectations (he can't even figure out what they are), so he is taken to a pleasant place called Raxtinu, an asylum for the mentally disabled. - The Angry Espers

They first head to an asylum to find it, but the owner checks them in by institutionalizing Peter and Cleveland, euthanizing Joe, and allowing Quagmire to make out with the female patients. - Guy, Robot

Siddharta seeks asylum in the realm of the Japanese Kami, as the other Pantheons are attacked by the angels of God. - God Is Dead (comics)

Madhan then recounts the story of one such inmate, a woman named Maya Matthews, who was taken to the asylum after murdering her husband and forced to give up her newborn daughter to the authorities in the asylum. - Maya (2015 Indian film)

A death sentence inmate escapes prison and seeks asylum in a rich widow's house where she is living with her only daughter. - Vidinja Kalyanam

Black Spider causes an explosion, putting the asylum on Yellow Alert; King Shark suggests playing the previous day's footage to keep both Batman and Waller from noticing them. - Batman: Assault on Arkham

Judy and Nick escape the asylum and get the recorded evidence to Chief Bogo. - Zootopia

In a mid-credits scene, Barnes, granted asylum in Wakanda, chooses to return to cryogenic sleep until a cure for his brainwashing is found. - Captain America: Civil War

He visited her at the asylum and after much persuasion and assurance he was eventually allowed to take her home. - Broken (2013 film)

Kraspin is also hiding there, given asylum in exchange for keeping Agatha young and beautiful with daily injections of a youth serum he creates by sapping the life essence of female slaves. - The Humanoid

Four days afterward, Tim voluntarily commits himself again to a mental asylum and reunites with Jessica, whose location has been hidden by him to protect her from the Operator's clutches. - Marble Hornets

Injured he seeks asylum at a house which happens to belong to his mother. - Karate (film)

The story moves between several different time-lines within Latha's life, from the present-day in which Every Dill shows up while Dawny and Sonora are summering in Stay More to Latha's memories of Every when they were children and teen-agers in Stay More to her years in a Little Rock asylum as a young adult. - Lightning Bug (novel)

They meet an old anarchist (Alberto Sorrentino) who thinks he is Giuseppe Garibaldi and the three are locked at a mental asylum where Doris commits suicide. - Action (1980 film)

When a relatively minor incident triggers a tantrum, François finds himself soon in an asylum for the mentally insane. - Nuts (2012 film)

Saul goes to Carrie (Claire Danes) and outlines his plans: Brody will seek political asylum in Iran where he will likely be hailed as a hero, with the goal of assassinating the leader of the Revolutionary Guard, which would then lead to Majid Javadi inheriting that position. - One Last Thing

The morning of the procedure, the Knave and White Rabbit come to save Alice, and the three of them escape the asylum and journey through a rabbit hole back to Wonderland, after convincing Alice that Cyrus has been seen alive. - Down the Rabbit Hole (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)

As described in a film magazine, Joan (Normand), an orphan, becomes interested in the drilling of soldiers at an American World War I training camp near the orphan asylum of which she is an inmate. - Joan of Plattsburg

The two learn of valuable paintings hidden in a military mental asylum managed by mentally instable Professor Amedeo Larussa (Lino Banfi). - The Nurse in the Military Madhouse

New Delhi is about a Delhi based journalist who is imprisoned in a mental asylum after exposing the wicked side of two corrupted politicians, and his subsequent attempts at revenge with the help of this lady love. - New Delhi (1988 Hindi film)

At one point of time a mentally retarded Oorvasi forcibly takes asylum in Eshwar’s estate. - Mannava (film)

Finally, the cops arrive and Andie is admitted to a mental asylum where she reveals that she had been stalking boys since her childhood and killed a lot of them. - Crush (2013 film)

A man escapes from an insane asylum and tries to convince a crusty hermit, a drifting saloon singer and himself that he is not a murderer. - The Scarf (film)

It had originally been a mental asylum for the criminally insane, but was almost completely destroyed in a fire. - Horror Story (film)

She stabbed her husband in the right eye with a comb and bit off his left ear trying to protect herself, which led to her father committing her into the asylum to escape her marriage to her "monster" of a husband. - Stonehearst Asylum

They are taken to a mental asylum for treatment by dr Shivani (Esha Gupta), who soon realises the truth and promises to discharge them. - Humshakals

Just like her mother, Rosangelica is left pregnant and confined to an asylum for mental patients. - Rosangelica

Dima refuses to provide the bank account numbers that would verify the corruption, until he and his family have been granted asylum in London. - Our Kind of Traitor (film)

Bigfoot also decides to help Doc about Coy and tells him to search for Puck Beaverton in Chryskylodon, an insane asylum run by a sort of cult with a connection to the Golden Fang. - Inherent Vice (film)

He is brought to a psychiatric asylum in Poland, where he remains in a vegetative state for 14 years from which he is unable to awake. - Wolfenstein: The New Order

Santiago is placed in a mental asylum and it is left unclear if he escapes. - Santa Diabla

Monsignor Timothy Howard (Joseph Fiennes) tells her that he is leaving to be Cardinal of New York and that the asylum has been donated to the state, and promises Jude he will get her out. - Continuum (American Horror Story)

Lana develops a sexual attraction to Grace (Lizzie Brocheré) and reveals to her that she knows of an escape route: the secret tunnel she first entered the asylum through. - Tricks and Treats (American Horror Story)

The Raspers, who are revealed to be humanoid, force the three escapees to return inside the asylum tunnel, where they stumble upon the dead Mexican and other corpses. - Nor'easter (American Horror Story)

While sneaking around the asylum Lana is attacked by something in one of the isolation rooms, when she sticks her arm in through a feeding door as does Leo in 2012, and is knocked out. - Welcome to Briarcliff

Charles becomes insane and is taken to a lunatic asylum in Cowley and then nursed back to health by Henrietta. - Mandeville (novel)

Discovering that the Collingwood Mental Hospital from the movie is actually an abandoned asylum in Canada, Alex and his friends travel to there to meet DeathAwaits6, where they discover a Ouija board. - Grave Encounters 2

Over the course of the section, it is revealed that Kalp's home planet was destroyed in a natural disaster and a very small ship of refugees was able to escape and seek asylum on Earth. - Triptych (Frey novel)

Some time later, Nica is sent to a mental asylum for the murders. - Curse of Chucky

Actually he is taken to a mental asylum and kept there because of a mistaken identity. - Rab Se Sohna Isshq

To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit. - Trick or Treats

He initially thought "Mama" to be an imaginary alter-ego of Victoria; however, his research corroborates Victoria's story that Mama is an aggrieved mother and brings to light the story of Edith Brennan, a mental asylum patient in the 1800s. - Mama (2013 film)

As Regina leaves to join Emma, Jefferson sneaks into the hospital’s underground asylum to release Belle (Emilie de Ravin), instructing her to find mr Gold and enlighten him about Regina's doings. - A Land Without Magic

On his 23rd birthday, Nick is summoned by his mother (Down) to the asylum where she has been institutionalized since his childhood. - Dark House (2014 film)

Yxxxxx, an intergalactic parasite with delusions of grandeur and highly dangerous, who is confined in a mental space, has decided to force three other inmates, who are not exactly an example of prudence, to escape the mental asylum with him to involve them in their evil plans. - Imaginum

The book starts out with Juliette in an asylum due to the fact that she murdered a small boy three years prior. - Shatter Me

Elain refused to take custody of him, so Delmount remained in the asylum longer than was originally intended. - The Miss Firecracker Contest

Professor Dowell's head is now kept alive and used by dr Kern for extraction of scientific secrets; however, his new assistant, the medically-trained Marie Laurent, discovers the ploy and is dismayed; to keep her from exposing him, Kern eventually gets her imprisoned in a false lunatic asylum for undesirables. - Professor Dowell's Head

Sometime later, Lex Luthor arrives at the asylum and breaks the Joker out using a weapon called "The Deconstructor" (which deconstructs unbreakable black objects, and is powered only by kryptonite). - Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

Gradually "Helios"' crew find out that the Earth's population underwent some process of degeneration (the cause, however, not being revealed), that the Earth's inhabitants are expected to die out quickly, and that the Moon colonies were constructed as a sort of asylum for the non-degenerated part of humanity, which is also expected to recolonize Earth when the crisis will have ended. - Van Troff's Cylinder

They find that Bailey is alive, held thirty-two years in a maximum security asylum for the criminally insane in London. - Red 2 (film)

Later he ends up in a mental asylum and leads a spiritual life there. - Aham (film)

In order to make ends meet, the three also work in the cafeteria of an asylum for the criminally insane along with William (Marcus Garvey). - The Incident (2011 film)

On November 4, 1979, Iranian activists storm the United States embassy in Tehran in retaliation for President Jimmy Carter giving the Shah asylum in theS. - Argo (2012 film)

Morales ambushes him with an emergency petition to compel the State Department to grant asylum to Fernando's family in federal court. - Zuma Canyon

Maisie must act fast when she learns that Lady Compton's own son has signed over his fortune to The Retreat and has taken asylum there. - Maisie Dobbs (novel)

As the social activist in her dominates the film-maker, she, with the help of her sub-collector fiance (Biju Menon), gets Lonappan released from the asylum and tries to find him a normal life. - Sesham

After years of violent and self-destructive behavior, a young Mary Roff from Watseka, Illinois was committed to an asylum in Peoria, Illinois, and on July 5, 1865, she died. - The Possessed (2009 film)

Again, he wakes in the ward, but the janitor - a manifestation of his Darkling - explains that the asylum is a trap for Jackie to keep him alive and away from Jenny. - The Darkness II

He sought political asylum in the former USA after killing the unit's commander of operations - for which he was put on the international "most wanted" list as an assassin. - Appleseed XIII

The Turk is willing to lure Pichushkin onto United States soil in exchange for asylum for his family. - Chuck Versus the A-Team

At the same time, the couple attending the party got the news that, the wife's ex-husband who is undergoing treatment in a mental asylum escaped from there. - Nilaavinte Naattil

Cesar's youngest children are twins: Narda and Claudio who're despised by their parents, the first because she's capricious and stubborn and the second because he has been in an insane asylum for years (because the sadistic Augusto has been abusing him, at the back of his family) creating him an infantile psychosis and making him paranoid and traumatized. - Imperio de cristal

Anna makes her way to the site of a disused asylum where Crowe was supposedly buried, she is distressed to find the building is long gone. - The Chair (film)

Newly released from an asylum after 3 years, she is reunited with her father and a new stepmother, Francene, but suspicious goings-on threaten to push her over the edge. - Picture Mommy Dead

The film concludes that we see Gayathri in a mental asylum where the three girls, now as friends pay a visit to see her. - Snegithiye

This sudden realisation brings her back down to earth as the police break into the building, which is a dis-used mental asylum she was once a patient at. - The Lark (2007 film)

But then she is surprised to learn that Zina has already asked for asylum before, in Poland. - Illegal (2010 film)

So Jayakrishnan, along with Ponnappan, decides to reopen the case of Hari Narayanan (Lal), who is locked up in a mental asylum for the past few years. - One Man Show (film)

In the history created by Stocke refusing to leave Heiss, Stocke finds asylum in the desert nation of Cygnus, and convinces King Garland the Mighty to prepare for war against Granorg. - Radiant Historia

Finally he is taken to a mental asylum where another patient (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) is also shown as a psychopath, victimised due to child sexual abuse and the end credits roll. - Nadunisi Naaygal

There are four disabled children in a sort of asylum called Bin Linnie Lodge (The Bin to the nurses,or Bin Linnie to the locals of the village) with unique disabilities. - Angel Blood

After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm", a bizarre insane asylum run by Doctor After being cured, Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer and begins a disastrous affair with Rennie, the wife of a colleague. - End of the Road (1970 film)

However, he and his group are unable to find asylum in the countries of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya and are unable to fly to Iraq because the plane they requested, a DC-9, does not possess the range to fly the thousands of miles necessary. - Carlos (miniseries)

He seeks political asylum in the UK but is planning to make the equivalent of US$5,000 in London and fly back as he is sure that with that kind of money he can buy his way out of the criminal justice process. - Harare North

She tells Frankie that his father had died and that his mother was taken away to an asylum a year previously. - Back Door to Heaven

Around thirty years later, the asylum is being used as the set of Silent Creek, a film based on the murders committed in it. - Skeleton Crew (film)

A wealthy man dresses up as Napoleon for a fancy dress ball, but is instead detained in a lunatic asylum where they suspect him of having delusions of grandeur. - One Hysterical Night

The message is carried by shock clips of asylum patients and presentation of the high care cost. - Das Erbe

After finishing the piece, El Hombre reads a notice from the governor, warning of the refugees about "murder boats" that will promise them asylum in theS, but will leave them to perish at sea after fleecing them of their savings. - Voice in the Wind

They children soon have an annulment, and the neighbor goes to a Protestant asylum where she is Americanized. - The Grand Gennaro

Later, unable to cope with the trauma, the little girl hung herself at a mental asylum she was put in following the incident. - Dragon Trap

A woman, Susan Alves, is in a mental asylum on the island of Mauritius in 1990. - Help (film)

Erifila is diagnosed as insane by the doctor and carted off to the asylum along with Floriano. - Madness in Valencia

Chitra spent an year in a mental asylum because she witnessed her family being murdered. - Katha (2009 film)

Victoria reveals to Barnabas that she's actually an escapee from the mental asylum where her parents had her confined since she was a child due to her powers. - Dark Shadows (film)

The first story involves a young couple returning home after hearing on the radio that a murderer with a hook on his right hand has escaped from the local insane asylum and is terrorizing the countryside. - Campfire Tales

"But I am Napoleon", the little Commander wails as he's dragged away by them to the nearest insane asylum or "maison d'idiot ("Sure, you are", one of the men nods sarcastically). - Napoleon Bunny-Part

The director of an asylum offers to the serial killer Molly Keller a chance to be submitted to a pilot unconventional experiment in Prague, in the Weisser Institute. - Ripper 2: Letter from Within

Johnny throws Rickie and Wheeler in his trunk, and he and Dwyer drive to the asylum to see Deadgirl. - Deadgirl

Although he escapes, he changes his mind and returns to the asylum to pursue a relationship with her. - Manasaare

Dagen awakens in a cage in an asylum and is told that his wife Joyce will die if he doesn't save her within one hour. - Saw 3D

His mother is committed to an asylum for violent tendencies and Schizophrenia; she often claims that people are watching her through mirrors. - The Law of Nines

On the other hand, Sakkarai is secretly loving Sophia who is new to their school and stays with him in the asylum of Daisy. - Pattalam (2009 film)

Back in Europe, it becomes clear that she is suffering from a fatal disease, and before she dies agrees to marry an asylum seeker from Algeria so he can attain permanent residence. - The Asylum Seeker

Fred Neville’s brother, Jack, inherits the earldom and pays for mrs O’Hara’s incarceration in an English mental asylum where she endlessly repeats the words “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. - An Eye for an Eye (novel)

Portena then reports that he has Amanda Beach, the ship's executive officer, who does have the override codes for the self-destruct but who demands asylum from Roger who can grant it upon the Imperial family's honor. - March to the Stars

Gwen and Ianto come to the realisation that they need to take responsibility for the good things that come through the Rift, like Freda and prompt Jack to introduce an asylum policy. - Asylum (Torchwood)

An inmate named Salem (Max von Sydow) escapes from an insane asylum in the dead of winter. - The Night Visitor

In a remote village, he encounters an orphan asylum run by American missionaries dr Hilbert (Jerrold Robertshaw) and his daughter Mary (Alice Terry). - The Arab (1924 film)

These events prompt immediate action from "the Section", a secret division of Swedish Security Service (Säpo) created for purposes of counterintelligence, and responsible for Zalachenko's asylum and supervision. - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

He tells her that he was once locked up in an insane asylum for claiming to talk with animals, but after being released, he used his communication skills to amass a large fortune (eg, horses at the racetrack, moles finding oil pockets underground, fish guiding him to sunken treasure). - The Missing Lynx

Then in guilt of what they have done, one of the conspirators Doña Micaela established an orphan asylum after his death for victims of those who feel sadness and desperation and have lost the will to live. - Blanca Olmedo

After she rouses the town while wearing her bridal gown, she is put into a lunatic asylum and eventually stops painting. - Séraphine (film)

He is then considered insane and spends the next thirty-five years of his life incarcerated in a mental asylum where he is haunted by his dreadful mistake years earlier. - Spawn (novel)

The game begins in an asylum on the Sprawl, a densely populated civilian space station built onto the last remaining shard of Titan, one of Saturn's moons, and site of the first planet crack. - Dead Space 2

In space, the Vespan realize that they cannot contain the Plutonian, and send him to Gehnom, an insane asylum in the heart of a sun. - Irredeemable

In Italy, in 1930, Professor Bonaccorsi, renowned psychiatrist, conducts research on madness in the asylum where he works as a doctor in Tuscany. - Down the Ancient Staircase

As such, she is confined to an insane asylum (another anticipation of Soviet times). - The Scarlet Empire

The stepfather bribes Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), an asylum orderly, into forging the signature of the asylum's psychiatrist, dr Vera Gorski (Carla Gugino), to have Babydoll lobotomized so she cannot inform the authorities of the true circumstances leading to her sister's death. - Sucker Punch (2011 film)

Timofyev (Malcolm McDowell) is a patient in an asylum who claims to be the man who killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918. - The Assassin of the Tsar

Later, at David's flat, Stefan provides evidence that Vogel now resides at an insane asylum in Ukraine, and is soon scheduled to be interviewed by a local journalist. - The Debt (2010 film)

Security rather than treatment comes first and the asylum boasted that no-one had ever escaped, that is until the disappearance of a patient called Hinton. - Minus One

The film follows Chris Vale (Scot Nery), who was admitted into an insane asylum at the age of 12 after witnessing how his mother was raped and killed by two thugs hired by his father(who subsequently committed suicide) and nearly killed by them with a headshot. - Halloween Night

He has recently escaped from the asylum of Gaustad in Oslo. - Beatles (novel)

In the third episode they receive a videotape showing them in an asylum together (several having previously revealed that they had been institutionalised) performing "Close Every Door" from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. - Psychoville

Spensonia maintains cordial relations with other republics, and extends political asylum to refugees from tyranny. - Spensonia

It is shown late in the novel that Lisa Brooke had in fact married an Irishman, Matthew O'Brien, who has been committed to an asylum most of his life under the delusion that he is God. - Memento Mori (novel)

The story ends with her father's release for Christmas, though asylum has yet to be granted. - The Other Side of Truth

After numerous attempts by the duo to get to Eyo, they only managed when Eyo sought asylum at the Sanctuary. - Eyo (novel)

It was Maria who came back from the car accident and it was Mira who died in the asylum and got cremated. - Mag-ingat Ka Sa... Kulam

Later Ghooli hears shocking news about the apparent death of Ramya, however she is not dead but in a mental asylum due to severe brain damage. - Gooli

The documentary tells the story of a group of Australian human rights activists, who travel on an old bus, the Freedom Bus, to visit asylum seekers imprisoned in immigration detention centres across the country, and to educate Australian communities on their 12,000-kilometres-journey. - Waking Up the Nation

Through the help of Netra, Simran approached Misha and discharged her from the asylum and Vansh helped Misha in recovery. - K. Street Pali Hill

There is also a parallel sub-plot regarding the impending closure of the asylum due to the cessation of funding from an anonymous benefactor. - When the Gods Fall Asleep

The two are taken for fools and taken to the asylum, and in fact the director of the asylum (Aroldo Tieri) tells how the various misunderstandings that led to their hospitalization are due in reality the foibles of their families. - Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics

The fore-said matha has an asylum taking care of handicapped orphans and a rare temple of Lord BrahmaHe narrates about this matha, whose chief is a skirt-chaser and goes to the extent of playing the flute to girls over the phone just to impress upon them. - Mata (film)

She wakes inside an exclusive and expensive mental asylum only to learn that the overdose has left her prone to an aneurysm that will kill her in a matter of weeks. - Veronika Decides to Die (film)

Patrice is sent to an insane asylum by Louise, who becomes fed up with his incompetence, however he escapes shortly afterwards. - Mad Shadows (novel)

Helped by Ann, Fernandel, and villainess-turned-heroine Zara, Bob is chased all over Paris by the underworld, at one point winding up in a mental asylum for safekeeping. - Paris Holiday

With the information gathered from "Greensleeves", they discover that Osbourne intends to choke the asylum system by overcrowding the holding centres, and after his followers stir up the race riots, Osbourne would encourage independent Member of Parliament (MP) Bill Watson (Jasper Jacob) to raise the issue of asylum seekers in the House of Commons. - Looking After Our Own

The second person he meets turns out to be a lunatic runaway from the local asylum who thinks he is the Emperor of Abyssinia and wishes to perform a human sacrifice with George playing the lucky lamb. - The Truth About George

With the fight over and the asylum closed, Captain America offers to take Clyde with him to the Marvel Universe. - Marvel 1985

The film opens at a mental asylum where doctors discuss the strange case of Arun Saxena (Ajay Devgan). - Dilwale (1994 film)

The three of them seek asylum at the palace of Emir Hussein, who controls the region, but he is revealed to be in cahoots with Bronstein; the illegal arms were meant to help him retake oil-rich territories from his rival, Sheikh Chekri El-Maahdi (whom Buck and Tumb recognize as the father of the princess they saved in Port Said). - Pilots Demobilized (Buck Danny)

The following night, wanting to know about Red Riding Hood, Sabrina, Daphne, and Puck go to the ruins of the asylum where she had met the Everafter child. - The Problem Child

He later lets Jude into the asylum through the kitchen entrance and she tells him she must speak to Mary Eunice alone in the office. - Unholy Night

The studio crew takes safety measures and heightens security, but in the local insane asylum a nurse is found viciously slaughtered at the stroke of midnight EST. - New Year's Evil (film)

After returning to his world, Jack saves the company's reputation by supporting the project of genetically-engineered plants that he previously rejected (after having discovered its effects during his stay in the Giants' prison), while Siggy is revealed in a newspaper headline to have been committed into an insane asylum due to the public's belief that he has gone insane for claiming that he is being hunted by giants. - Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Maxi is in fact finally sent to the insane asylum at Leganes by his family, who attempt to convince him it is in fact the monastery he wished to enter; despite seeing through their deception he is now too apathetic and fatalistic to object to such treatment and is resigned to his fate. - Fortunata y Jacinta

After the crimes, Miguel is institutionalized at a mental asylum for five years. - Bloody Moon

Gravelle escapes from the asylum and makes his way to the San Marco opera house and begins hiding out in the various rooms and passageways. - Charlie Chan at the Opera

They embarked on their journey home, but by the time the craft returned to Earth, their commander had gone mad—taking a terrible secret with him to a heavily guarded state asylum for the insane. - Final Days of Planet Earth

The story is set two or three years after the 1947 independence, when the governments of India and Pakistan decided to exchange some Muslim, Sikh and Hindu lunatics, and revolves around Bishan Singh, a Sikh inmate of an asylum in Lahore, who is from the town of Toba Tek Singh. - Toba Tek Singh (short story)

Decades prior, Wyntech had discovered a rift leading to "Dimension X" in the basement of their building and sought to use it for monetary gain by selling teleportation technology to the United States government, performing experiments first with animal subjects but later using mental patients supplied by the corrupt dr Marek, who was employed at the asylum where Curtis was later committed. - Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh

Little Jacques takes a score of orphans from a nearby asylum and they escape through the tunnel. - Till I Come Back to You

Within minutes, two men in white coats from the local insane asylum come to retrieve the supposed car collector, with Claude following right behind. - Pardon My Clutch

Her mother is eventually released from the asylum and takes Mari to church one day. - SistaGod

After the execution of Kattabomman on 17 October 1799 at Kayattar, Chinna Marudhu gave asylum to Kattabomman's brother Oomadurai. - Sivagangai Seemai

Warned by a friend, she decides to seek asylum with the Freehold colony, which is independent of UN control. - Freehold (novel)

At the end of the film, as the two siblings are in a police car heading to the asylum to investigate, the officers (Mark Kelly & Sharon Schaffer) accidentally let the patients escape into the outside world. - Insanitarium

This he learns from his brother James Hildern (Christopher Lee) who runs the asylum where Hildern’s wife had been held in secret. - The Creeping Flesh

Miss Hannigan is driven insane and is carted off to an asylum as Rooster and Lily are also escorted out of the mansion. - Annie (1999 film)

After killing 6 in a bathroom and executing a well-planned escape, he is found in the city by an asylum doctor who instead congratulates 47 on a job well done. - Hitman: Enemy Within

His father works at Fisher's commissary though he is a heavy drinker and is at risk of losing his job, and his mother was committed to an insane asylum and no longer recognizes her son. - The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Sunny is released and he befriends Remo while Remo pays donation to the asylum where Siddharth's mother is being treated. - Raqeeb

They lock up Genghis and Cortado in the local asylum since they can't answer to any accusations after falling victim to their own scheme. - The Palace of Laughter

Hanna, whose husband Henrik participates in the resistance movement, gives temporary asylum to a prisoner of war, Arakel, by hiding him in her house in northern Norway. - Bonded Parallels

Becker recognizes the trousers Burns is wearing to be asylum issue. - The Couch Trip

dr Willard reveals that the asylum warden was known to practice highly controversial methods of treatment. - The Devil's Chair

Ratnavel is sent to a mental asylum where he later hangs himself. - Satham Podathey

Once finding out Stryker is letting a new group of girls audition for the role of Audra, she escapes the asylum for revenge. - Curtains (1983 film)

In the series finale, Mariano Lujan was sent to the insane asylum in Miami, Florida for a long period of time for his participation in Maria Liz's kidnapping (Geraldine Bazan), Ivana Santalucia freezes to death in a meat plant and the psychotic Marcelo and his mentor-turned-enemy Luciano Robles del Campo die a slow and painful death after stabbing each other. - El Amor no Tiene Precio

In order to escape the gallows, he feigns insanity, and is ordered to be admitted to a mental asylum until he recovers. - Pagla Kahin Ka

Darnford reveals that he has had a debauched life; waking up in the asylum after a night of heavy drinking, he has been unable to convince the doctors to release him. - Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

Adrian and Elena's kids, Freddy and Denisse (both in college but living at home), are saddened by the news of their mother in an asylum but understand it is for the best. - Pecados ajenos

When pulled over by police, she desperately phones her friend Florence Farfaletti, the "Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs," begging for asylum to avoid a harsh punishment. - Florence of Arabia

Guna (Kamal Haasan) is a mentally affected person and receives treatment in a mental asylum in Hyderabad. - Gunaa

In the first story, "The Case of Harry Billings", a man is kidnapped and taken to an insane asylum where he is put under hypnosis and lures victims to be tortured and murdered as part of an organ-harvesting operation. - Night Train to Terror

The letter informs her that Pooja was in a mental asylum for 6 years, and she needs Sarah's company. - Notebook (2006 film)

He sneaks in, but then reveals that he is an escapee from a nearby mental asylum and thinks he is "Boney". - Misleading Lady

Not long after, a Native American enters the embassy to seek asylum and a friendship grows despite their inability to communicate. - Hajji Washington

Eventually, Joseph is released from the asylum and promises to Parker that he will get him out one day. - Joseph's Gift

He meets Nizar, a member of the terrorist organization who is prepared to offer information in return for asylum in North America. - Body of Lies (film)

Meanwhile, Bobby senses her presence in the house and escapes the mental asylum so he can finish the job he was unable to complete. - Sorority House Massacre

He is then thrown into an asylum after he loses his mind & suffers from amnesia. - Yaarana (1981 film)

When she is in the refugee detention centre at Frankfurt Airport her application for asylum is turned down. - Fremde Haut

Unable to discern which man is Stalin, Steve offers them all political asylum in the West, but the men respond by showing them Tata, who has been tortured and killed. - The Girl in the Kremlin

Hōgen encourages his monks to do what they think is right: to welcome Yoshitsune in and grant him asylum if he should arrive and request it. - Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura

María manages to escape from the asylum and hides from the police in the house of Doña Filo, a good friend from her poverty years, until Jorge Luis asks the police not to pursue her any more. - María Mercedes (telenovela)

The narrator remarks that after the patient revolt is crushed, the soothing system is reinstated at the asylum he has visited, though modified in certain ways that are intended to reform it. - The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

Dr Martin arrives at a secluded asylum "for the incurably insane" to be interviewed for a job by the wheelchair-bound, authoritarian dr Lionel Rutherford. - Asylum (1972 horror film)

A Target Corporation-exclusive follow-up shows Bumblebee tracking down Sam by checking outside Archibald's asylum and looking for his son, Clarence, to Springfield, Missouri, where he learns of his son Herbert, his six children and starts to look for each, one-by-one. - Transformers: Movie Prequel

The local government of Irschenberg are planning the construction of a motorway exit with a fast-food restaurant, for which they need the property of Magdalena Trenner, a rich old woman who is unpopular in the village until she takes in a traveling carpenter, Johannes, and later an asylum seeker named Theophile. - Die Scheinheiligen

Massingham pays the asylum keeper to hold Judith until he feels she has learned her lesson. - Judith (novel)

Many other patients in the asylum are also experiments of Lutor, driven mad by his work. - Batman: Nosferatu

Emily gradually becomes fearful of Lillith, so she heads to the mental asylum for answers from Lillith's parents. - Case 39

In 2007, at the Dixmor Asylum for the Criminally Insane, a severe thunderstorm causes the security system at the asylum to momentarily go offline, opening the cell doors throughout the facility, resulting in the populace wandering freely through the corridors. - Manhunt 2

At the end of the novel Salvo languishes in a holding facility for asylum seekers, awaiting his deportation to the Congo where he will be reunited with Hannah. - The Mission Song

Upon arrival it is discovered that the Black Edelweiss Institute is a Swiss mental asylum headed by a gentleman named Dr Gygax. - Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

They later hear that he has been committed to an asylum for talking about aliens living in his head. - The Underground (novel)

In the second scene, Maria bemoans the "helpless situation of [her] sex": "Reputation is the life of a woman - and the only safe asylum a woman of delicacy can find, is in the arms of a man of honor". - The Contrast (play)

Yoshioka is visited by the ghost again who reveals that she is not the murdered woman, but a ghost of a woman whom he saw in the window of an asylum fifteen years ago who has died. - Retribution (2006 film)

As a single memorable example of the absurdist tone of the piece, one of the asylum patients of the first act appears in the second act as Figure in Straitjacket, performing as a television set for the bulk of the remaining action. - The Day Room (play)

The runaway slaves make it to Rome, and manage to rescue Marcus from the asylum where he is being held. - Romanitas (novel)

A doctor from the asylum up the road, Dr Hendricks (Edward Fox), arrives and informs the guests that a homicidal maniac, has escaped and is hiding out in the area. - The Cat and the Canary (1979 film)

Two refugees, Ali and Massoud run away from their asylum camp and meet Louise, a former Miss Sweden. - The New Country

Later in her life, she committed murders and was subsequently put in a mental asylum where she died—presumably by her own hand. - Unrest (2006 film)

The film is about a woman who experiences frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Count Dracula (here following the Hungarian spelling Drakula). - Dracula's Death

The standard procedure is to "remove" the displaced person to protect the Paratime secret by any means judged necessary, generally memory erasure, but also committal to an insane asylum or even assassination. - Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen

They both were separated as children and Nandu spent most of his life in an asylum for killing his stepmother. - Aalavandhan

Daninsky later discovers her underground asylum populated by the bizarre subjects of her failed experiments. - The Fury of the Wolfman

Lawrence saw his father standing over her dead body; afterwards he was sent to an insane asylum in London suffering from delusions. - The Wolfman (2010 film)

Johano found the father in an insane asylum in The Hague, and they were able to recall him to sanity with their music. - Children of Orpheus

Cookie is then taken by the orderlies into the mental asylum basement, where he is thrown into a cell with a roommate: an old lady with mood swings (she seems sweet at first but can sometimes have a quick temper). - Rayman: The Animated Series

Norman Bates has spent the last two decades locked up in a mental asylum after the events in the first novel. - Psycho II (novel)

As the sequence was originally written, Hatteras perishes in the crater; Verne's editor, Jules Hetzel, suggested or rather required that Verne do a rewrite so that Hatteras survives but is driven insane by the intensity of the experience, and after return to England he is put into an asylum for the insane. - The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Kinderman's investigations lead him to a mental asylum where there are a number of suspects, including a psychiatrist and one of his own patients. - Legion (Blatty novel)

They visit the colonel's house, suspecting him to be a murderer of innocent girls, but soon learn from the colonel that the spirit is actually his own daughter, Malini (Malini Sharma), who was mentally ill and had managed to escape from the mental asylum several times. - Raaz (2002 film)

Once married, Rivers plans to have Maud committed to an asylum and he will then take her fortune for himself. - Fingersmith (TV serial)

When Anthony reluctantly provides her asylum in his rectory, the brash hustler soon discovers a secret he has hidden from his diocese and parish. - Sinner (film)

He breaks out of the asylum and kidnaps Ellen with the help of the golem. - It! (1967 film)

Spider, birth name Dennis Cleg, is a recent arrival from a lunatic asylum to a halfway house in the East End of London—just a few streets away, by strange coincidence, from the very house where he grew up, and the scene of some barely visible but tremendous trauma which peeps out at the reader gradually from the fog of Spider's reminiscences. - Spider (novel)

The film takes place in an old, worn down insane asylum in Auckland, New Zealand, run by dr Marlowe (Roy Ward). - The Ugly

She is put in a mental asylum for 4 years, and makes friends with a Jewish man, Moishe Goldberg. - Jessica (novel)

A man named Legion appears and tells Jack that the power he seeks does exist and offers to share this power with him if Jack constructs an insane asylum for like-minded killers in Deadside – the land of the dead. - Shadow Man (video game)

That night, Renfield, a mental patient who lives in the asylum next to Lucy's home, escapes from confinement and Lucy's house is broken into by demons. - Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

Mr Denman is committed to an asylum after all and the Tuesday Club congratulates Miss Marple on her success, although Raymond points out there is one thing she doesn't know. - The Thirteen Problems

The day before Agnes is to be moved to an asylum on the orders of William, she runs away in search of the Convent of Health on the advice of Sugar who indulges Agnes' fantasy that she is her angel. - The Crimson Petal and the White

Eric privately mentions to the Snows that Jenni spent time in an asylum following the sudden death of both her parents, and mrs Snow reveals that Jenni is very wealthy. - The Screaming Skull

While Sydney's been in the desert, Vaughn has tracked both missing agent Jacobs and a mathematician, dr Caplan, to an insane asylum in Romania, where prisoners are being held against their will. - Alias (video game)

The United States Government reacts by tucking him away at a luxurious asylum in New Bern, North Carolina, where he is visited by one "Count d'Artigas"—actually Ker Karraje, a notorious pirate of Malagasy origin. - Facing the Flag

In the original story, the narrator does not seem to end in a lunatic asylum or experience any mysterious nightmares himself. - The Call of Cthulhu (film)

His tormentor has a flashback of being committed to an insane asylum and being tied down to a bed. - Four Flies on Grey Velvet

Papa Gimplewart (Davidson) exchanges his house, in order to escape the antics of inmates of the lunatic asylum next door, including characters played by Laurel and Hardy. - Call of the Cuckoo

The book uses two new settings: a sink estate divided between the indigenous population and refugees (based on Wester Hailes), and a small town whose economy is dominated by an internment camp for asylum seekers (based on Dungavel). - Fleshmarket Close

Jean Grey and Professor Xavier meet to discuss Jean's recent manifestations of the Phoenix, but their conversation is interrupted by a group of paramilitary officers searching for Fantomex, the self-proclaimed "most notorious mutant criminal in Europe," who is hiding in the X-Corp offices and asking for the asylum promised by Xavier. - New Worlds (comics)

When Sverdlov shows interest in seeking asylum in the West, Judith contacts her former lover Paterson, who communicates her request to Loder. - The Tamarind Seed

The two will trick both individuals into traveling with them to London; Laura will be placed in an asylum under the identity of Anne, and Anne will be buried under the identity of Laura upon her imminent death. - The Woman in White (novel)

D requests that the authorities, including Greco’s father, the town sheriff and dr Feringo (Fehring in the English dub), should hold off Doris’ incarceration at the local asylum until he kills Count Lee. - Vampire Hunter D (1985 film)

Meanwhile, the local state insane asylum has sent a majority of the hospital's inmates to the carnival for therapy, but three psychotic mental patients break away from the group and kill three clowns, taking their makeup and costumes. - Clownhouse

Instead, to her shock, she finds a desert, “an entirely clean and vibrating room as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed. - The Passion According to G.H.

Francis Petrel, recently released from an asylum faces his own inner demons as he recounts his memories of a murderer in the asylum during his time there. - The Madman's Tale

It turns out that Aunt Martha did the attacks to convince Phyllis she was insane, and belonged in an asylum rather than married to Barry, so Martha and her daughter could remain living in the mansion. - She-Wolf of London (film)

The film follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient of a fictitious psychiatric asylum for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. - Adam Resurrected

Eve's husband/Annette's father Georges is in an asylum for, four years ago, using a blowtorch to kill a man who had raped Annette. - The Maniac

He knocks her out and locks her up in an asylum hidden in the depths of the lighthouse. - Anchorhead

Aymar transfers Bertrand to an asylum after the reactionary Versaillists have retaken Paris, with great loss of life among the Communards, who are executed en masse. - The Werewolf of Paris

After three months, Mustafa was informed that his request for asylum was denied, and that he would be repatriated to Iran. - Escape from Woomera

She requests political asylum while her Geminese family demands that she be returned to them. - The Captain's Hand

He then visits a mental asylum where he apparently had resided for a time, to talk to another patient, Leonard Simms, who keeps repeating to Hurley the numbers he used to win the lottery. - Numbers (Lost)

Baron Victor Frankenstein (Cushing) is housed at an insane asylum where he has been made a surgeon at the asylum, and has a number of privileges, as he holds secret information on Adolf Klauss, the asylum's corrupt and perverted director (John Stratton). - Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

They tell Steven that Sarah is an escaped psychiatric patient from their asylum who has multiple personality disorder. - The Muse (1999 film)

Making a temporary home in a local cottage, and telling Maud they are simply waiting for their affairs to be brought to order in London, Gentleman and a reluctant Sue make arrangements for Maud to be committed to an asylum for the insane. - Fingersmith (novel)

The United Kingdom, one of the very few stable nations with a functioning government, is deluged by asylum seekers fleeing the chaos and war which have taken hold around the world. - Children of Men

Anatoly immediately defects from the Soviet Union and seeks asylum at the British embassy. - Anthem (Chess song)

The quintet are cordially welcomed by the middle-aged party host, who offers them drinks, shows them around the mansion (allegedly a former convent and asylum also built by Philip Lemarchand), and provides them with cell phones to communicate with other guests. - Hellraiser: Hellworld

Surgery could cure his brain injury, but he refuses to consent to it, preferring a life in an insane asylum to a probable murder conviction. - High Wall

Maddstone is beaten up, pumped full of drugs, and taken away to a remote lunatic asylum off the coast of Sweden. - The Stars' Tennis Balls

Subsequently, Douvier and the French public believe Clouseau is dead; as a result of this assumption, Clouseau's ex-boss, former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), is restored to sanity and is released from the lunatic asylum to perform the investigation (though he was seemingly disintegrated in the previous film). - Revenge of the Pink Panther

She is forcibly admitted to an insane asylum after Richter surreptitiously types threatening messages from Draper to him to frame her as crazy and a threat to his safety. - Witness to Murder

Meanwhile, Ryan, Mancuso, and Jones come aboard via a rescue sub, at which point Ramius requests asylum in the United States for himself and his officers. - The Hunt for Red October (film)

dates back to the end of the War of Northern Aggression and the beginning of Reconstruction for the massive loss of their slaves, who sought Canada as both freedom and asylum from theSA. - C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

Fearing the consequences of being investigated by his own people, Kell quickly requests asylum aboard the Enterprise, which Picard says they will consider after his name is cleared of any wrongdoing by the Klingons. - The Mind's Eye (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Meanwhile Juliana is admitted to asylum after the trauma of her life sends her into non responsive shock. - La mujer en el espejo

The story also mirrors the plot of Philippe de Broca's 1967 French cult classic film King of Hearts (Le Roi de coeur, starring Alan Bates) about the inmates of an asylum abandoned by the staff during World War I who take over the neighboring town. - House of Fools (film)

The police and the headmistress of the asylum trace Patricia to the Delambre estate, where they learn that she has married Martin, but it is soon discovered that he had a previous wife whom he did not divorce. - Curse of the Fly

After pleading insanity on the advice of their lawyer, Fry was going to be sent to a human asylum, and Bender to a robot asylum; yet since the human asylum is overcrowded (as poverty had been deemed a mental illness by the Judge), both Fry and Bender are sent to the HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots. - Insane in the Mainframe

Back in London, Dracula contacts his servant Renfield, who is incarcerated in the insane asylum of dr Jack Seward and promises him eternal life in exchange for his services. - Dracula, the Musical

Eventually she is sent to a mental asylum and François is given custody of his brother's young son, Henri. - The Fly (George Langelaan)

An uninhabited asylum was set to be demolished for a new shopping mall, only for the funding to be withdrawn at the last moment. - Blackstone Chronicles

Ralph is put in an asylum for the criminally insane "for the rest of his natural life". - Reefer Madness

After meeting her at the asylum in which she is a patient, he takes her back to his room where he's prey to opposite feelings towards her. - I Stand Alone (film)

Unbeknownst to any of them, Wallace killed one of the attendants with a syringe and snuck out of the asylum to hide inside Betty's car. - Stage Fright (1987 film)

Sirol diplomatically "apologizes" for accidentally closing the fissure and gives Picard and his crew the option of taking asylum aboard the Warbird; this would allow both the Enterprise and the Pegasus to be captured by the Romulans. - The Pegasus (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

He decides to leave the asylum but stays when Tanvi expresses her love to him. - Kyon Ki

Alex West (Bud Cort) roomed with Norman Bates (Kurt Paul) at the state lunatic asylum nearly twenty years for killing his abusive stepfather, and they became close friends. - Bates Motel (film)

The three escape their mental asylum and sexually assault their way into a girls' school. - Carnal Madness

However, he offers Daryl, who question's Ezekiel's methods as a leader and decision, asylum within the Kingdom walls. - Rock in the Road

While on her new regime, the Winchester brothers tracked her and Crowley to an abandoned insane asylum and busted in intent upon killing Amara. - The Darkness (Supernatural)

Five inmates from an asylum overseen by an exhausted warden (Robert Englund) escape and make their way to a newly opening amusement park called Land of Illusion Haunted Scream Park. - The Funhouse Massacre

David returned to the asylum to confront the now-jailed Albert and challenging him to a fight to the death, only to have Hook intervene and place Albert back in jail. - Murder Most Foul (Once Upon a Time)

Several years later, the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities assemble at the orphan asylum to attend the commencement exercises of this institution, where they hear a valedictorian address delivered by the little orphan boy who was left there by his uncle years before. - How the Jews Care For Their Poor

Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and, with the help of the reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and the car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovers that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients in a mental asylum to become killers. - The Age of Assassins

Captain Frank Spotino, the other astronaut who landed at Eagle with dr Lang, stumbles upon a secret compartment in the base which houses several cosmonaut refugees hoping for political asylum in the United States. - Russians on the Moon!

The film is about a professor who in 1857 began compiling the OED and led the overseeing committee and a doctor who submitted over 10,000 entries when he was a convict at an asylum for the criminally insane. - The Professor and the Madman (film)

Some Scottish politicians attribute the deterorating relations to a recent influx of Kurdish asylum seekers in Glasgow, supported by local authorities and handled by the Asylum Seeker Resettlement Project, which they claim is unwanted by the British public and has resulted in a backlash by disaffected citizens. - Gas Attack (film)

As the prank goes along as planned, Emma starts having second thoughts about it and leaves Rohan alone, where he explores the asylum through many of the team's special effects, despite Emma's pleas to end the prank. - Scare Campaign

In the absence of her father, she was drugged and sent to mental asylum by Pundarikam's sons and daughter in laws. - Allari Pilla

Sam and Dean discover that Crowley holds Amara on an asylum and track it down. - Our Little World

Dr Matthew Allen runs an asylum called High Beach Private Asylum for mental patients of his. - The Quickening Maze

Udham Singh does not arrest Sheetal for these wrongdoings, but advises her father Chaudhry humorously to get his insane daughter immediately admitted into India’s biggest mental asylum situated in Agra. - Gupt: The Hidden Truth

Nadine later arrives at the asylum to have Linda return with her where she meets dr Seward. - Vampyros Lesbos

From there, he goes to the Sangatte asylum seekers camp and with a new friend, Yusef, he crosses the channel by stowing away on a lorry. - In This World

Malone is an old man who lies naked in bed in either asylum or hospital—he is not sure which. - Malone Dies

The police arrive and detain Roxana, and she ends in an asylum with a disfigured face. - Amigas y rivales

At this point, Sophie is unexpectedly summoned by her mother, who lives in Brooklyn having gained asylum and immigrated to the United States. - Breath, Eyes, Memory

There, they find two of their colleagues killed by the dwarfs and decide to take asylum in the village's temple so they won't be found. - Athbhutha Dweepu

Ghosh and Shyam, Vijay's close friend, refuse to recognise him and he is committed to a mental asylum since he insists he is Vijay and is thought to be mad. - Pyaasa

The townspeople release Kyle from the asylum and apologize, then they all sing Christmas songs and watch mr Hankey fly away with Santa Claus. - Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo

A Russian requesting asylum arrives, claiming to be high-ranking KGB colonel Valentin Mironov, who knows Ulysses, and is interviewed by Edward, who is fully convinced of his honesty. - The Good Shepherd (film)

A disturbing scenario that involves a former asylum and psychiatric malpractice: it's Alex's habitat indeed, and he knows how to move. - Alex Delaware

After SG-1 go missing on their off-world mission, a Goa'uld named Ba'al contacts Stargate Command and suggests an exchange of the captured SG-1 against Camulus, another Goa'uld who requested asylum on Earth several episodes before. - Zero Hour (Stargate SG-1)

Exploring the mansion, Oliver encounters several spirits of patients who are bound to the asylum by their possessions, including a teenage girl with hysterical pregnancy, a schizophrenic who believes she's English royalty, and a depressed woman who was treated with steam baths and hydrotherapy. - John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles

Norman Osborn manipulates America into electing him President by using alien DNA to create the Hydra—a parasite collective that mind-controls its host bodies—and grants Tony Stark (one of the last unmutated humans) political asylum in exchange for constructing robotic replicas of the fallen Avengers to battle the Hydra menace. - Earth X

At one point Gordon goes outside the building into the old garden, where several tombstones from patients who died during their stay at the asylum can be seen. - Session 9

(In the American version, this is changed with Sir Charles' new motive being to prevent Dr Strange from committing him to an asylum for his growing megalomania) Cartwright used his party in Cornwall as a dress rehearsal for the murder of Strange. - Three Act Tragedy

Additionally, Renfield is committed to an asylum after biting a cow, apparently having gone completely insane. - Nosferatu the Vampyre

Andrei later learns that Domenico used to live in a lunatic asylum until the post-fascistic state closed them and now lives in the street. - Nostalghia

He obtains a room at a boarding house run by Anna, whose fiance Karl is a doctor at the local insane asylum where a former scientific collaborator of the Baron's, who has lost his mind, now resides. - Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

Ash Williams (voiced by Bruce Campbell) is locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane, as a result of the events that took place in The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II. - Evil Dead: Regeneration

The Swiss bank account that Jimmy opened for him makes it look as though he is hiding assets, and the certificate he signed to join the club turns out to be a request for political asylum in Venezuela, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. - The Spanish Prisoner

The story takes place during a 24-hour period while four family members take their vacation on a remote island, shortly after one of them, Karin, is released from an asylum where she has been treated for schizophrenia. - Through a Glass Darkly (film)

On Christmas morning, while Meg and Gray are at church, the asylum telephones to say that Hilary has gone missing, and Hester unintentionally reveals to Sydney that insanity runs in their family. - A Bill of Divorcement (1932 film)

Margaret, although she is allowed to leave by the intervention of her younger brother, does not leave the asylum without leaving her mark. - The Magdalene Sisters

When Striker reads of the upcoming lunar shuttle launch, he escapes the asylum and buys a ticket for the flight. - Airplane II: The Sequel

Now genuinely traumatized, Butters accepts that he has been imagining Cartman's visits, but Cartman breaks into the asylum to get his help again. - The Death of Eric Cartman

In a (literal) mid-credits scene, Dreyfus is committed to a lunatic asylum for his actions, where he is straitjacketed inside a padded cell and vows revenge on Clouseau. - The Return of the Pink Panther

Père Jean, a compassionate, sacrificing priest of the old school, had agreed to grant a secret asylum to hunted Jews. - Au revoir les enfants

In 1876, Riel is secretly committed by a friend to a lunatic asylum near Montréal under a false name. - Louis Riel (comics)

Sum wants Sing to use his escape skills to free a legendary fighter, the Beast, from a mental asylum to use against Pig Sty Alley, offering Sing membership in the Gang for doing so. - Kung Fu Hustle

The building was abandoned after a fire broke out, killing all its asylum inhabitants, and became a dark and haunted place. - Thief: Deadly Shadows

One day, their daughter arrives at the asylum to tell her parents about her plans for the wedding date. - A Page of Madness

Dreyfus promptly escapes from the asylum and once again tries to kill Clouseau by planting a bomb while the Inspector (by periodic arrangement) duels with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk). - The Pink Panther Strikes Again

When the bus finally stops, everyone sees the obvious damage, but Bart is still sent away to an insane asylum for the rest of his life for his disruptive behavior. - Treehouse of Horror IV

Master Cielmer, a magician as well as teacher and councilor to Gustave XIII assists both mother and son in escaping Thermes and seeking asylum in the city Gruegel in the kingdom of Na. - SaGa Frontier 2

With the Seers who run Vadanis in uproar about the unpredicted arrival of twins, and disgusted with his condition, Terrel is sent to, and brought up in, Haven—an asylum for the insane, utterly unaware of his royal lineage. - The Guardian Cycle

The protagonist, Art Berry, has been sent to an insane asylum as a result of a complex conspiracy. - Eastern Standard Tribe

The game takes place between various locations in the United States and Siberia, including: a training base in Germany; the village of Dubrensk, the Huvat Plateau, and a secret cold-war research facility within Siberia; a medical research facility in the Virginia, an asylum in the Vermont, a tenements block in Queens, New York, and the headquarters of the NSE in the New Jersey. - Second Sight (video game)

dr Killjoy (voiced by John Armstrong) was a psychiatrist/surgeon who ran an insane asylum on the island in the 1920s. - The Suffering (video game)

With the following volumes, it is revealed that Ukiko was in fact abducted shortly after this, by a rival agency called "Control Corps", who treat her injuries and keep her trapped and medicated within a hidden asylum for broken-down government agents. - Kabuki (comics)

is committed to an asylum by Yarby, who has heard about the gnomes and deems his boss insane. - The Gnome-Mobile

Placed in a lunatic asylum for the act, Salieri is visited by Father Vogler (Richard Frank), a young priest who seeks to hear his confession. - Amadeus (film)

Dracula escapes their attempts to kill him and bursts into the asylum to free the captive Lucy, which he does. - Dracula (1979 film)

Khouri claimed that as a result, she had been forced to seek asylum in Queensland, Australia. - Forbidden Love (novel)

The player character is a young Quetch named Twinsen, who has been incarcerated in an asylum on the fortress-like Citadel Island because of his prophetic dreams about the end of the world. - Little Big Adventure

Ort-Meyer orchestrated 47's escape from the asylum in order to test his performance in the outside world and ordered his associates' deaths because they wanted to use 47 for their own purposes. - Hitman: Codename 47

Opal Koboi, who had been under 24-hour surveillance, had DNA tests done every 4 hours, a seeker-sleeper planted in her arm (a device that can make the criminal faint, it also gives his/her position away) and had her in a net trapped with monitoring pads by the LEP to ensure that Opal was actually in the asylum cell, with help from the Brill Brothers manages to replace herself with a clone, which is identical to herself (the only difference being that the clone is brain dead). - Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

MI6 enters Bond in the tournament, believing a defeat will force Le Chiffre to seek asylum with the British government, which they will grant in exchange for information on his creditors. - Casino Royale (2006 film)

Besides Athkatla, other places the player will pass through include: an island, on which stands both the port town of Brynnlaw and the asylum Spellhold; the Underdark; the city of Suldanessellar; and the Astral Plane. - Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

The first part of the novel follows the experiences of the central characters in the filthy, overcrowded asylum where they and other blind people have been quarantined. - Blindness (novel)

An asylum was built to house the afflicted, but within fifteen years, the asylum had more residents than the town did. - Psychonauts

And also an uninvited man arrives, claiming to work for a lunatic asylum and to be in search of an escaped inmate. - The Big Four (novel)

While Elaine waits at her family home next door for Mortimer to take her on their honeymoon, Mortimer makes increasingly frantic attempts to stay on top of the situation, including multiple efforts to alert the bumbling local cops to the threat Jonathan poses, as well as to get the paperwork filed that will have Teddy declared legally insane and committed to a mental asylum (giving him a safe explanation for the bodies should the cops find them, and preventing his aunts from creating any more victims because they will no longer have any place to bury the bodies). - Arsenic and Old Lace (film)

He then says that this situation reminds him of a joke about two inmates in a lunatic asylum who try to escape. - Batman: The Killing Joke

The couple reunite when he asks her to welcome and house Leon Trotsky (Geoffrey Rush), who has been granted political asylum in Mexico. - Frida

Laubardemont informs Sister Jeanne that Mignon has been put away in an asylum for claiming that Grandier was innocent (the explanation given is that he is demented), and that "with no signed confession to prove otherwise, everyone has the same opinion". - The Devils (film)

Employees of a fictional top secret psychological warfare agency called PISCES, headquartered at a former insane asylum known as "The White Visitation" investigate Slothrop's apparent precognition, including statistician Roger Mexico and Pavlovian behavioral psychologist Edward Pointsman, among others. - Gravity's Rainbow

Sometime in the 1970s, "toward the end of the War in Vietnam", a large castle is used by the US Government as an insane asylum for military personnel. - The Ninth Configuration

The asylum gates are left open, and the inmates leave the asylum and take on the roles of the townspeople. - King of Hearts (1966 film)

Disguised as fashionable women, the two infiltrate Mondo Burger's kitchen and discover that their burgers are being artificially enhanced with Triampathol, an illegal chemical; Kurt kidnaps them, and calls a man named Wade who has them committed to an asylum called Demented Hills so they won't tell the public. - Good Burger

Her father places her in an asylum in Saint-Mandé, where she lives for the next forty years. - The Story of Adele H.

With help from the asylum staff, Francis studies the director's records and diary while the director is sleeping. - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Several years later, the Marquis is confined to the asylum for the insane at Charenton, overseen by the enlightened Abbé du Coulmier. - Quills

Hannah retires from performing and is eventually committed to an asylum after developing psychosis. - Chaplin (film)

As 1959 progresses, it is Mussburger who is sent to the asylum while Norville develops a new invention "for kids," an enigmatic circle on a folded sheet of paper that will ultimately turn out to be a frisbee. - The Hudsucker Proxy

Sir Charles sends for a court-appointed psychiatrist (Graham Crowden) to evaluate Jack, confident that his nephew will be sent to an asylum for life. - The Ruling Class (film)

Human rights groups claim that during Banzer's 1971-78 tenure (known as the Banzerato) several thousand Bolivians sought asylum in foreign countries, 3,000 political opponents were arrested, 200 were killed, and many more were tortured. - Hugo Banzer

Antonapoulous becomes mentally ill, misbehaves, and despite attempts at intervention from Singer, is eventually put into an insane asylum away from town. - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

While the two bond in the Beast's castle, Gaston pays Monsieur D'Arque to send Maurice to the town's insane asylum if Belle refuses Gaston's proposal again. - Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)

He is confined to an asylum as an unidentified inmate because he has lost his memory and has trouble speaking. - Random Harvest (film)

Roth is refused asylum and even entry to Israel and is forced to return to the United States. - The Godfather Part II

[Note how a country's human rights problems becomes of interest to the US political and media class only when that country defies the US: hence, all the now-forgotten focus on Ecuador's press freedom record when it granted asylum to Julian Assange and considered doing so for Edward Snowden, while the truly repressive and deeply US-supported Saudi regime barely rates a mention. - Email service used by Snowden shuts down, warns against using US-based companies

This is all wrong, now the world will never find out from him about his abuses.Ion Bugan on death of Ceausescu
After receiving a series of invitations from mysterious men to meet them in town, death threats on the phone in the middle of the night, and even a call from a woman offering sex to dad, we decided to seek political asylum in the US. - How the secret police tracked my childhood

Meaning of "asylum" in Hindi

Synonyms of "asylum"

psychiatric hospital

insane asylum

mental home

mental hospital

mental institution

institution

refuge

sanctuary

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